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Filing: Elon Musk acquires a 9.2% passive stake in Twitter, worth ~$2.89B at Friday's market close, becoming its largest shareholder; Twitter shares rise 27.2% — Elon Musk has taken a 9.2% passive stake in Twitter, according to a 13G filing, Bloomberg News reports. Twitter rose about 26% in pre-market trading.
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| Lily Russell-Jones / City A.M.: |
UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak asks the Royal Mint to issue an NFT by the summer, as the Treasury plans a “forward-looking approach” towards crypto assets — The Treasury has announced plans to dive into the crypto space with the launch of an official NFT later this year.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Truth Social CTO Josh Adams and product chief Billy Boozer have quit, following the troubled launch of the Trump-backed social network on iOS — The two Southern tech entrepreneurs had the two qualities that Donald Trump's Truth Social startup needed: tech-industry expertise …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Mailchimp discloses a breach where hackers accessed 319 accounts and stole “audience data” from 102 clients; phishing scams of crypto users quickly followed — Email marketing firm MailChimp disclosed on Sunday that they had been hit by hackers who gained access to internal customer support …
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| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
Sky Mavis: Axie Infinity DAUs had fallen 45% from a November peak to 1.48M for the week ending March 28, a day before Ronin's ~$600M crypto hack was announced — The popular play-to-earn Axie Infinity game had been losing users even before the record cryptocurrency hack disclosed …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Sequoia names veteran investor and PayPal alum Roelof Botha as Senior Steward effective July 5, replacing Doug Leone, who will remain as a GP of existing funds — Sequoia Capital has a new global leader in veteran investor and PayPal alum Roelof Botha. — The heavyweight venture capital firm …
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| Emily Baker-White / BuzzFeed News: |
Former ByteDance employees say the company scraped Instagram, Snap, and others to make fake accounts on TikTok predecessor Flipagram, later renamed Vigo Video — In 2017, TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, scraped short-form videos, user names, profile pictures, and profile descriptions from Instagram …
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| Associated Press: |
Research: RT en Español is the third-most shared site on Twitter for Spanish-language info about Russia's invasion and in March saw a boost in Facebook likes — Washington (AP) — Though Russia is the country that invaded its neighbor Ukraine, the Kremlin's version relentlessly warns …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Fortnite raises $144M for Ukraine relief, two weeks after Epic Games said all of its and Microsoft's proceeds from the game would go to humanitarian efforts — The fundraising effort has ended after two weeks — In two weeks, Fortnite has raised a total of $144 million for Ukraine relief efforts.
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| Aaron Schaffer / Washington Post: |
The US State Department announces the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, starting with 60+ staff and plans to add 30 more in 2022 — Nearly 100 people will staff a new cyber bureau at the State Department — Today, the State Department is launching its long-awaited cyberspace and digital policy bureau.
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| Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter: |
Roku and Amazon extend their distribution agreement, letting users continue accessing Prime Video and IMDb TV apps on their Roku devices; Roku stock is up 5%+ — The new multi-year agreement means the Amazon Prime Video app will remain in Roku's Channel Store.| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Alphabet's Wing division plans to begin drone delivery services in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on April 7, starting with Walgreens' health and wellness products — Alphabet's Wing division has announced that it's launching a drone delivery service in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex on April 7th.Sponsor Posts
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